Irish Song Lyrics 
from www.traditionalmusic.co.uk 
ROGER CASEMENT 
A lonely wave is breaking on the rocky Antrim shore And the sighing winds are a keening oe'r the water's solemn roar The seabirds sweep to Heaven with a loud and piercing wail 'Tis the passing knell of one who dies in a lonely English jail 
Along the sweltering Congo swamps, a ghastly silence falls And the jungle trees hang lifeless like a thousand funeral palls And dark-skinned men a heavy with a fear they cannot name While their gentle friend is lead to death with mockery and shame 
Ah, lordly Roger Casement you gave all a man could give that Justice be unmocked at and that liberty might live But you hurt the high and mighty ones in pocket and in pride And that is why they hated you and that is why you died 
They stripped you of your honours and they hounded you to death And their blood lust was not sated when you gasped your dying breath They tried to foul your memory as they fouled your corpse with lime But God is not an Englishman and truth will tell with time 
Ah, gentle Roger Casement you have blessed us in your death They have tried to blot you from our minds, but we shall not forget Your cause will be triumphant and when slavery's night is oe'r Your bones shall rest, your last request, on your rocky native shore